Mitchell Center Faculty and Students to Present at AAG Meeting
The Mitchell Center’s Future of Dams team will have a very strong presence at this year’s American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting April 3-7, 2019 in Washington, D.C. For the three Future of Dams sessions, presenters and authors from the team include Bridie McGreavy (chair for session 2), David Hart, Sam Roy, Emma Fox, Sharon Klein, Tyler Quiring, Sarah Vogel, Jessica Jansujwicz, Brawley Benson, Kaitlyn Raffier, and Karen Wilson (University of Southern Maine).
The sessions focus on current research on dams, the trade-offs and dynamic behavior of dams in coupled social-ecological systems, and the ways in which information about these systems and other knowledge are developed and used to shape decision-making about dams. The sessions aim to bring together diverse research on dams and will include ongoing research that is part of the National Science Foundation-funded Future of Dams project—a stakeholder engaged, solutions-focused, interdisciplinary research initiative focused on the future of decision-making about dams.
The annual AAG meeting draws over 8,500 geographers from the U.S., Canada, and nearly 60 other countries in a typical year.